Our Fabric Library

Loro Piana

Cashmere & wool blends · 280–320 g/m² · Year-round suiting and special occasion

Loro Piana operates its own mills in Quarona, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy — one of the few luxury fabric houses in the world that controls the entire process, from raw fiber sourcing to finished cloth. Their cashmere-wool blends are distinguished by an exceptional softness underhand and a fluid, weighted drape that moves naturally with the body and photographs exceptionally well. We reach for Loro Piana for wedding suits, milestone commissions, and any garment where the cloth itself needs to carry the weight of the occasion.

Ermenegildo Zegna

Super 150s–180s wool · 240–300 g/m² · Year-round

The Zegna mills have been weaving suiting cloth in Trivero, in the Italian Biella Alps, since 1910. We source from Ermenegildo Zegna's fabric division, which produces some of the finest Super 150s and 180s wools available to independent tailors — cloths notable for their remarkable fineness, their light weight relative to their structure, and a luminous quality in the weave that reads as effortlessly refined in person. For a made-to-measure suit built to be worn for decades — a partnership announcement, a milestone promotion, a garment that should outlast the occasion that prompted it — Zegna wool is the cloth that requires no explanation to anyone in the room who knows fabric.

Dormeuil

Super 150s wool · 260–290 g/m² · Suiting · Amadeus collection

Dormeuil was founded in London in 1842 and remains one of the oldest continuously operating fabric houses in the world, with weaving operations across Britain and France. Their Amadeus collection sits at the top of their suiting range — a Super 150s wool with a tight, even weave that resists wrinkling under long hours and communicates authority before a word is spoken. It is the cloth we most consistently recommend for founders, CEOs, and attorneys across the Bay Area and Silicon Valley who need a custom suit that performs at 7 AM and still looks considered at midnight.

Scabal

Super 120s–130s wool · Year-round · Savile Row collection

Scabal has been producing suiting cloth in Brussels since 1938, supplying some of the most respected tailors on Savile Row and across Europe. Their Savile Row collection is built for the man who dresses for outcomes rather than dress codes — a refined super wool with enough structure to hold shape across a long day and enough recovery to arrive in a new city looking like it was just pressed. For executives and dealmakers who move between San Jose, New York, and London, a made-to-measure suit in Scabal wool is the one that travels without apology.

Holland & Sherry

Ultra-fine and rare fiber · 180–220 g/m² · Special commission

Holland & Sherry has operated from Savile Row since 1836 and remains the only cloth merchant of its kind still working from its original address. Their highest collections are woven from some of the rarest fibers sourced globally — ultra-fine merino, vicuña, and qiviut — at weights that feel almost impossibly light on the hand but drape with quiet precision on the body. We reach for Holland & Sherry for a specific kind of commission: an anniversary, a milestone birthday, a once-in-a-decade garment. Not a suit you wear to work. A suit you hand down.

Fox Brothers

Tropical wool & flannel · 220–260 g/m² · Highly breathable · Spring and summer

Fox Brothers has been weaving cloth at their mill in Wellington, Somerset, since 1772 — one of the oldest surviving textile mills in England. Their tropical wool weights are woven specifically for warmth-climate dressing: fine enough to breathe genuinely in August heat, structured enough to hold a clean silhouette through a full day's wear. For beach weddings in Tulum, garden parties in Napa Valley, or any destination event where the suit needs to arrive unwrinkled and leave still looking composed — a made-to-measure summer suit in Fox Brothers cloth is the one that earns the compliment.

Dugdale Bros. & Co.

Heritage Irish linen & tropical wool · 200–250 g/m² · Summer and resort

Dugdale Bros. & Co. has been weaving cloth in Huddersfield since 1896. Their heritage Irish linens are among the most sought-after cloths in bespoke tailoring — woven from 100% Irish linen with a texture that softens naturally with wear, breathes with a depth that wool blends cannot match, and develops a relaxed, lived-in character that is entirely its own. For a summer suit worn to a resort wedding, a seaside rehearsal dinner, or the kind of California occasion where the dress code says "smart casual" and you intend to set the standard — Dugdale linen is the cloth that looks right without trying to.